Guardian journalism is independent. We earn a commission if you buy something through an affiliate link. Learn more. Three months after Bergen-Belsen was liberated, Britten and Yehudi Menuhin ...

Twenty outstanding recordings of Britten's music from John Wilson, Vilde Frang, Mstislav Rostropovich, Peter Pears and many more, including the composer himself Benjamin Britten came of age in 1934, ...

Despite his reputation as a conservative figure, the composer’s ability to explore timeless human experiences remains indispensable Ivan Hewett is The Telegraph’s Classical Music Critic and an author ...

In a new interview with Jesea Lee, BREAKING BENJAMIN frontman Benjamin Burnley spoke about the band's upcoming tour of Europe, which is scheduled to kick off on June 6 at the Rock Im Park festival in ...

That did affright the air at Agincourt? In 1961, British pacifist composer Benjamin Britten addressed that question by writing his “War Requiem” on commission for the consecration of the new Coventry ...

Walter Benjamin’s life, to use the kind of metaphor he was so fond of, was not unlike the Parisian arcades, those covered retail passages that he loved so much. He was born into a world with the finer ...

A new bronze statue of Benjamin Britten, sculpted by renowned artist Ian Rank-Broadley, has taken its place on Lowestoft’s seafront after three years of planning and community fundraising. Facing the ...

A theatrical adaptation of The Turn of the Screw was at the rehearsal stage when Michael Shamata arrived at the Belfry Theatre during its 2007-08 season. Though much from that time in his career seems ...

Zeb Soanes, vice chairman of the Britten as a Boy project, with sculptor Ian Rank-Broadley and a clay sculpture of Benjamin Britten as a boy, which has since been cast in bronze A life-sized statue of ...

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Classic FM’s Zeb Soanes is joined by leading musicians in a community campaign to install a statue of much-loved composer Benjamin Britten on the seafront in Lowestoft. Born in 1913 in Lowestoft, East ...